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Politics in Time: History, Institutions, and Social Analysis

Politics in Time: History, Institutions, and Social Analysis

Paperback

PhilosophyGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0691117152
ISBN13: 9780691117157
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Aug 29 2004
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.48 Depth: 9.24
Language: English

This groundbreaking book represents the most systematic examination to date of the often-invoked but rarely examined declaration that history matters. Most contemporary social scientists unconsciously take a snapshot view of the social world. Yet the meaning of social events or processes is frequently distorted when they are ripped from their temporal context. Paul Pierson argues that placing politics in time--constructing moving pictures rather than snapshots--can vastly enrich our understanding of complex social dynamics, and greatly improve the theories and methods that we use to explain them.


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